[[cluster-nodes-info]]
== Nodes Info

The cluster nodes info API allows to retrieve one or more (or all) of
the cluster nodes information.

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curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes'
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes/nodeId1,nodeId2'
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The first command retrieves information of all the nodes in the cluster.
The second command selectively retrieves nodes information of only
`nodeId1` and `nodeId2`. All the nodes selective options are explained
<<cluster-nodes,here>>.

By default, it just returns all attributes and core settings for a node.
It also allows to get only information on `settings`, `os`, `process`, `jvm`,
`thread_pool`, `network`, `transport`, `http` and `plugins`:

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curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes/process'
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes/_all/process'
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes/nodeId1,nodeId2/jvm,process'
# same as above
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes/nodeId1,nodeId2/info/jvm,process'

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes/nodeId1,nodeId2/_all
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The `_all` flag can be set to return all the information - or you can simply omit it.

`plugins` - if set, the result will contain details about the loaded
plugins per node:

* `name`: plugin name
* `description`: plugin description if any
* `site`: `true` if the plugin is a site plugin
* `jvm`: `true` if the plugin is a plugin running in the JVM
* `url`: URL if the plugin is a site plugin

The result will look similar to:

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{
  "cluster_name" : "test-cluster-MacBook-Air-de-David.local",
  "nodes" : {
    "hJLXmY_NTrCytiIMbX4_1g" : {
      "name" : "node4",
      "transport_address" : "inet[/172.18.58.139:9303]",
      "hostname" : "MacBook-Air-de-David.local",
      "version" : "0.90.0.Beta2-SNAPSHOT",
      "http_address" : "inet[/172.18.58.139:9203]",
      "plugins" : [ {
        "name" : "test-plugin",
        "description" : "test-plugin description",
        "site" : true,
        "jvm" : false
      }, {
        "name" : "test-no-version-plugin",
        "description" : "test-no-version-plugin description",
        "site" : true,
        "jvm" : false
      }, {
        "name" : "dummy",
        "description" : "No description found for dummy.",
        "url" : "/_plugin/dummy/",
        "site" : false,
        "jvm" : true
      } ]
    }
  }
}
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if your `plugin` data is subject to change use
`plugins.info_refresh_interval` to change or disable the caching
interval:

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# Change cache to 20 seconds
plugins.info_refresh_interval: 20s

# Infinite cache
plugins.info_refresh_interval: -1

# Disable cache
plugins.info_refresh_interval: 0
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